Quotes of: Elementary-school Keyword

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Katherine Dunn

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should...

Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography

1. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better make sure kids can’t get guns. 2. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better find out what’s making th...

Guns Part 2

She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-s...

The Goldfinch

So here's the deal: I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she's a "strong, assertive model student."I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on school property are a sign that our school has sold out to corp...

Bad Girls Don't Die

A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols....It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt an...

How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school. Instead, I was force-fed a few of ...

Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!

I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because ...

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

The next prisoner looks twelve. He says he's sixteen. He knows it is shameful to fight for the FNLA, but they told him that if he went to the front they would send him to school afterward. He wants to finish school because he wants to paint. if he co...

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that bursts into fire All this week. Senses her infinite smallness But can’t seize it, Recognizes the folly of desire, The folly of withd...

Love

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

The Confessions of a Misfit

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

The Deerslayer

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Deschooling Society

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

Etiquette & Espionage

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.

Fear for America

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

The Four Doors

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Fairest

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Girls in White Dresses